Japanese ace Tanaka signed a seven-year, $155 million contract with the Yankees on Jan. 22. Foreign baseball players apply for a P-visa, which can take up to a month to go through the system. Schumer doesn't hide he's a lifelong Yankees fan, but he made sure to note he wasn't going above and beyond to give his team any preferential treatment compared to that other team over in Queens.

"I made sure we had someone go to the mailroom at USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), pull his application and get it processed quickly — something I have done in the past for the Mets as well, when they had a similar issue with Jose Reyes," Schumer told New York Daily News.